You're reading from Mastering UI Development with Unity Develop engaging and immersive user interfaces with Unity

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235394

Length 638 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Unity

Concepts

UI Development

Author (1):

Dr. Ashley Godbold

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Designing User Interfaces

2. Chapter 1: Designing User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Designing Mobile User Interfaces

4. Chapter 3: Designing VR, MR, and AR UI

5. Chapter 4: Universal Design and Accessibility for UI

6. Chapter 5: User Interface and Input Systems in Unity

7. Part 2: Unity UI Basics

8. Chapter 6: Canvases, Panels, and Basic Layouts

9. Chapter 7: Exploring Automatic Layouts

10. Chapter 8: The Event System and Programming for UI

11. Part 3: The Interactable Unity UI Components

12. Chapter 9: The UI Button Component

13. Chapter 10: UI Text and TextMeshPro

14. Chapter 11: UI Images and Effects

15. Chapter 12: Using Masks, Scrollbars, and Scroll Views

16. Chapter 13: Other Interactable UI Components

17. Part 4: Unity UI Advanced Topics

18. Chapter 14: Animating UI Elements

19. Chapter 15: Particles in the UI

20. Chapter 16: Utilizing World Space UI

21. Chapter 17: Optimizing Unity UI

22. Part 5: Other UI and Input Systems

23. Chapter 18: Getting Started with UI Toolkit

24. Chapter 19: Working with IMGUI

25. Chapter 20: The New Input System

26. Index

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Parts of the UI Toolkit system

The UI Toolkit uses a set of assets and a GameObject component to create UI. The primary assets used to create UI are as follows:

UI Document (UXML)
Style Sheet (USS)
Panel Settings
Theme Style Sheet (TSS)

Figure 18.6: Assets used when making UI Toolkit interfaces

A UI Document is a UXML file type (.uxml extension). This file uses Unity Extensible Markup Language (UXML) to define the layout and structure of the UI. While UXML is a unity-specific markup language, it works similarly to other markup languages like HTML and XML. You can create UXML files by right-clicking in an Asset folder and selecting Create | UI Toolkit | UI Document, then naming the file appropriately.

A Style Sheet is a USS file type (.uss extension). This file is used to designate style properties that can be referenced in a UXML file. This works very similarly to a CSS file when working with HTML. You can create USS files by...